Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
I had this nice little twat (that’s not a Twitter Spat – it is a Twitter Chat!) about outrage against bad films (subjective, I know), with Vijayeta (@sacredinsanity). In hindsight, I realize she was referring to outrage generally, while I was talking…
‘Attraction’ is arguably the first browser-based interactive anime film. It has been created for the French ministry of health, INPES, by DDB Paris, to promote the dangers of smoking. It’s a 10 minute interactive film that is groundbreaking at many levels, the…
I was in a mall, recently; shopping away to glory with family when I bumped into an old friend. He was with another friend and as is the norm, we were introduced. The other guy is a venture capitalist! We exchanged cards…
Why am I asking? Because of this. Anand Mahindra tweeted this, first. Just passed through Delhi T3 for the 1st time.Can’t believe there was criticism of long walks to gates.Get some exercise&Get a life! Fair enough – his personal opinion. I love…
Last month, I had written about Aricent attempting some social’ness in their recruitment advertising in Times of India’s Ascent. Yesterday, IBM went a step forward. The IBM Daksh recruitment ad yesterday had a separate segment for IBM Alumni, complete with a LinkedIn…
After that phenomenal online buzz, it was strange that no Indian company/brand even tried doing a local version of the Old Spice campaign. But now, you have Radio Mirchi trying it, not on YouTube (like Old Spice), but on Facebook. Merely answering…
Update – 23.12.2010: I had a l-o-n-g twiscussion with Krutika Ashar, who may or may not be connected with this campaign – she refused to answer that part till the end. But let that not stop me from sharing the discussion and…